VOLUTA. 531 



elegans. 70. Shell ovate, entire, polished, with a 

 minute elevated spire; pillar six-plaited; 

 aperture contracted in the middle. 



Voluta elegans. Gmelin, p. 3448. 



Voluta cancellata, Var. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 118. 



Voluta Sibilla. Solander's MSS. 



Voluta, No. 98. Schroeter Einleitung, i. p. 269. 



Martini, ii. p. 106. t. 42. f. 424 and 425. 



Inhabits 



Shell scarcely three-quarters of an inch long, and less than half 

 as broad, much polished, and marked with longitudinal and 

 transverse bluish lines, of which the latter are often more or 

 less collected in bands, but neither of these markings extend 

 to the margin, which is covered with a coat of enamel ex- 

 tending downwards from the whirls. The pillar can hardly 

 be said to have more than five plaits. 



bullata. 71. Shell ovate, entire, smooth, with a 

 minute flattened spire ; pillar four-plaited ; 

 aperture rather effuse. 



Voluta bullata. Born Mus. p. 218. Chemnitz, x. p. 159. 



t. 150. f. 1409 and 1410. Gmelin, p. 3452. Schreibers 



Conch, i. p. 133. 

 Voluta Ovum. Gmelin, p. 3448. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 



112. 

 Voluta, No. 99. Schroeter Einleitung, i. p. 269. 

 Bonanni Kirch. 3. f. 269, and Rec. Supp. f. 13. Lister 



Conch, t. 803. f. 11. Knorr, iv. t. 23. f. 1, and t. 27. f. 



1. Enc. Method, t. 376. f. 5. 

 Inhabits the Indian Ocean. Bonanni. East Indies. Chemnitz. 

 Shell two and a half inches long, and half as broad, of a pale 

 red colour with longitudinal lines, and obsolete transverse 

 livid bands. It is nearly allied to V. elegans, and Gmelin, 

 though he has given the two species separately, has after- 

 wards incorporated them under Born's name of V. bullata. 



reticulata. 72. Shell ovate, with decussated 

 grooves ; outer lip ribbed within ; pillar sub- 

 umbilicated. 



Voluta reticulata. Linnceus Syst. Nat. p. 1190. Martini, 

 iii. p. 430. t. 121. f. 1 107 and 1 108. Schroeter Einl. i. 

 p. 214. Gmelin, p. 3446. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 1 16. 

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